expected. It always does. Lohengrin
came into the assembly-room five minutes after I did and was visibly
annoyed at my make-up.

"This is a great liberty," said he, grasping the hilt of his sword; but
I answered by blowing the bugle at him, at which he turned livid and
fell back. He had recognized its soft cadence. I then hauled the sword
from my belt, shook it at a fly on the wall, which immediately died, and
made as if to do the same at Lohengrin, whereupon he cried for mercy and
fell upon his knees.

"Turn that infernal thing the other way!" he shrieked.

"Ah!" said I, lowering my arm. "Then you know its properties?"

"I do--I do!" he cried. "It used to be mine--I confess it!"

"Then," said I, calmly putting the horrid bit of zinc back into my
belt, "that's all I wanted to know. If you'll come up to my office some
morning next week I'll introduce you to your wife," and I turned from
him.

My mission accomplished, I left the festivities and returned to my
quarters where my fair client was awaiting me.

"Well?" she said.

"It's all right, Mrs. Lohengrin," I said, and the lady cried aloud with
joy at the name, for it was the very one she had hoped it would be. "My
man turns out to be your man, and I turn him over therefore to you, only
deal gently with him. He's a pretty decent chap and sings like a bird."

Whereon I presented her with my bill for 5000 oboli, which she paid
without a murmur, as was entirely proper that she should, for upon
the evidence which I had secured the fair plaintiff, in the suit
for separation of Elsa vs. Lohengrin on the ground of desertion and
non-support, obtained her decree, with back alimony of twenty-five per
cent. of Lohengrin's income for a trifle over fifteen hundred years.

How much that amounted to I really do not know, but that it was a large
sum I am sure, for Lohengrin must have been very wealthy. He couldn't
have afforded to dress in solid silver-tinsel tights if he had been
otherwise. I had the tights assayed before returning them to their
owner, and even in a country where free coinage of tights is looked upon
askance they could not be duplicated for less than $850 at a ratio of 32
to 1.

X. GOLF IN HADES

"Jim," said I to Boswell one morning as the type-writer began to work,
"perhaps you can enlighten me on a point concerning which a great many
people have questioned me recently. Has golf taken hold of Hades yet?
You referred to it some time ago, and I'v